FundersNew York

Doovin Trust

Brooklyn, NY · EIN 11-6532369. Reported 57 grants totalling $989,250 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$8,000median grant
$989,250granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$7,910,110assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Doovin Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $8,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $860 and $23,800; the smallest was $180 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
16 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cong Zichron AvrahamBrooklyn, NY$175,000222024
Cong Pnei MenachemBrooklyn, NY$174,500442024
Kupat Eizer Nisiun Bais YisroelBrooklyn, NY$97,200222023
American Friends of Sevath Emeth Yeshiva IncBrooklyn, NY$86,800332024
Donor's Fund IncLakewood, NJ$80,000112021
Congregation Lev SimchaMonsey, NY$53,000332024
CzayBrooklyn, NY$50,000112024
Friends of Mosdot GoorBrooklyn, NY$44,100222024
Cong Zecher Avraham IncBrooklyn, NY$41,500332024
Cong Yeshiva Bnei TorahBrooklyn, NY$30,000112023
Kupath RambahnBrooklyn, NY$25,000112021
Keren YisroelBrooklyn, NY$20,000112021
Fidelity Charitable Gift FundCincinatti, OH$18,000112023
Cong Ziv YisroelBrooklyn, NY$16,000222022
Congregation Bais BerlinerBrooklyn, NY$15,000222022
Congregation Ohr YisroelBrooklyn, NY$15,000112022
RccsBrooklyn, NY$10,000112021
Yeshiva KetanaStaten Island, NY$10,000112023
Cong Mikvah Tehara of Staten IslandStaten Island, NY$5,000112024
Yeshiva Yagdil TorahBrooklyn, NY$5,000112021
Cong Ahavas Achim GerBrooklyn, NY$3,500112021
Cong Shearith IsraelBrooklyn, NY$2,160222024
Yeshiva Imrei YosefBrooklyn, NY$1,550112021
Yeshiva Derech EmesMonsey, NY$1,300112021
Cong Vayadaber Dovid Tehilim InternationalBrooklyn, NY$1,220222024
Friends of L'nefesh TidresheinuBrooklyn, NY$1,200332024
Kollel Avreichim D' Chassidai GurBrooklyn, NY$1,200112021
Cong Marah YechezkelBrooklyn, NY$1,080332024
Cong Bais YisroelBrooklyn, NY$1,000112021
ImanuBrooklyn, NY$1,000112023
VariousBrooklyn, NY$860112022
Ahavas Tzedakah V'chesedBrooklyn, NY$700222022
Bais EstherBrooklyn, NY$500112021
Ozer DalimBrooklyn, NY$500112023
Mosdot BotoshanBrooklyn, NY$200112021
Congregation AlexanderBrooklyn, NY$180112021

14 of 36 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 33%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
8 grants
Employment
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$254,690$3,500
202212$136,720$10,000
202312$178,720$12,500
202412$419,120$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 90% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$891K
New Jersey
$80K
Ohio
$18K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Ojc Fund11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsThe United Elenar Foundation6 shared recipientsPark Charitable Trust6 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund6 shared recipientsEastlawn Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $8,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Doovin Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5223 15 Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11219. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 11-6532369 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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